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Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
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Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
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Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Halford Mackinder
Halford Mackinder
British political geographer
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Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
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al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian
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Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
German scholar Carl Ritter
Carl Ritter
German geographer
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Li Zhizao
Chinese mathematician and astronomer
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Alfred Hettner
German geographer
Friedrich Ratzel
Friedrich Ratzel
German geographer
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth
German geographer and explorer

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